The Union Textile Ministry signed agreements with leading textile playes like Raymond, Welspun, Titan, Reliance Retail and the Sachin Tendulkar-promoted True Blue, under which these companies will procure more from the weavers directly.

Telangana has allotted Rs 500 crore for modernisation of powerlooms in the textile town of Sircilla to boost the textile industry and weavers in the region, State Handlooms and Textiles Joint Director Purnachandra Rao said inaugurating a four-day buyer-seller meet in Hyderabad organised by the State Textile Ministry recently.

Represented in the Indian textile market since 1947 and established with a company-owned liaison office in India since 1996, Stäubli has been an important supplier to numerous local weaving mills for decades.

The State Industries Department of Bihar has signed an MoU with the National Handloom Development Corporation (NHDC) to provide yarn on credit to weavers for 45 days. Bihar, in fact, became the first State in the country to sign such an agreement with NHDC and the State Industries Department has created a corpus of Rs 1 crore for this scheme.

GoCoop, India’s first online marketplace for weavers and artisans hosted ‘Go Swadeshi’- a one of a kind exhibition that showcased a wide range of exquisite handloom sarees and products by weavers and artisans

OS Manian, Tamil Nadu Handlooms and Textile Minister, said that the Tamil Nadu Handloom Weavers’ Co-operative Society Ltd, popularly known as Co-optex, has recorded total sales of Rs 315 crore in 2016-17.